The Reform Club
Seven rooms and a private-club energy in the middle of Amagansett. The rare Hamptons hotel that actually feels like a clubhouse.
A seven-room hotel on Windmill Lane that operates more like a private clubhouse than a boutique inn. Breakfast in the garden, weekly pilates in a sunken lawn, a house car if you want to skip parking on Main Street. The pricing — from $895 in season — assumes you already know what you're walking into.
Amagansett has a few hotel options. Reform Club is the one that doesn't try to be a destination on its own. It's a base, lightly staged, with the volume down.
The setting
Amagansett sits between East Hampton and Montauk on the South Fork. Main Street is two coffee places, a hardware store, an IGA that sells $30 cheese, and a few restaurants that fill quickly in July. Reform Club is a short walk off it — close enough that you don't need the car, far enough that the town noise stays on Main.
The ocean is about a mile south down Atlantic Avenue. Indian Wells Beach and Atlantic Avenue Beach are the two practical entries. The drive in from the city is the LIE to Sunrise, then 27 east, and on a Friday it's three to four hours from Manhattan.
The building
It reads as a refined country house rather than a hotel — clapboard, oak, lime-washed walls, velvet seating that looks lived-in rather than staged. The public rooms are small and low-lit, the kind of spaces where you'd actually finish a book. There's a sense the design was edited rather than installed.
Seven keys total: a mix of suites, freestanding cottages with fireplaces, and a four-bedroom residence called 21 House. The cottages are the strongest pull for anyone who wants a door to themselves.
The rooms
The suites have private terraces and bespoke joinery — bathrooms feel residential, not hotel-spec. Cottages add gardens and fireplaces, and they take pets. 21 House works as a buyout for a small group that wants the run of a four-bedroom inside the property.
Beds are deep, linens heavy, and the room count means there's never a queue for anything.
Food & drink
Meeting House is the in-house restaurant — New American, with a bar that takes its martini seriously enough to say so on the website. It's open to non-guests with a reservation, which is part of why the place has a clubhouse feel; locals turn up for dinner and stay past it.
On the property
Garden, pool, and a small wellness layer that runs more as programming than as a spa.
- Sunken garden with weekly pilates in season
- Pool, garden lounging
- Yoga, surf lessons, light fitness add-ons by request
- Bicycles and house car for Main Street and the beach
- Closed in winter — reopens early May
Who it's for
- Couples who've already done Topping Rose and want quieter
- Anyone who'd rather have a great breakfast included than a points balance
- Small groups taking 21 House as a buyout for a long weekend
- People with strong opinions about the room a martini is poured in
Who it's not for
- Travelers who want a true full-service resort with a beach club attached
- Families with young kids who need a kids' program
- Anyone hoping for off-season rates — the property closes most of winter
Nearby
Amagansett Square for coffee at Jack's Stir Brew and the bookstore. Lunch at Lunch (the lobster roll place on 27). The Stephen Talkhouse for a low-stakes show. Atlantic Avenue Beach and Indian Wells for swimming. Montauk's twenty minutes east — Surf Lodge, the Lighthouse, Gosman's. Sag Harbor's twenty minutes west for dinner at Lulu Kitchen or a walk down Main Street.
